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As you know, today is kicks off the holiday shopping season. Below are several Tweets and Facebook posts we’ve been making about some of the fantastic #Blackfriday de
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 Avid Media Composer 6 began shipping last week after being announced just under a month ago. The release has seen quite a bit of press as it was teased back in the summer and a large part of that tease was letting users know what they could expect when this version came along. I haven’t had a chance to really pound MC6 as of yet since it just shipped but I have been kicking the tires on it for the last few days. Keep an eye on That Post Show for upcoming episodes all about MC6.
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 Avid Media Composer 6—as well as Symphony 6 and Newscutter 10—were officially released to the public today. This follows Avid’s announcement several weeks ago, detailing the software’s new features.
Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to beta test Avid Media Composer 6. Now that the software has officially been released, I’m excited to begin sharing tutorials on the newest Media Composer 6 features with the PremiumBeat community.
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 I was in New York City for a Samsung event focused on SSDs and gaming on PCs last month. There wasn’t much in the way of new information, but Samsung gave me one of their SATA III 256GB 830 SSDs to try out. These are within a few bytes per second of the fastest SATA3 SSDs money can buy, so I was pretty excited to get home and throw it in a Mac.
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 Thanks to Avid's new Open I/O SDK, the HDX-SDI and HD Express are compatible with — and fully certified for — Media Composer® 6, Symphony® 6, and NewsCutter® 10.
The HDX-SDI and HD Express deliver uncompressed, full-raster 1080/720 HD or SD video to and from the computer, allowing you to capture and play HD/SD material using any video format supported by Media Composer and Avid Media Access®, such as XDCAM, DNxHD, and ProRes.
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 Join Matrox technical experts on November 17 or 22 for a detailed discussion of Matrox support for Avid Media Composer 6, which has expanded to the entire range of Matrox MXO2 devices and the new Mojito MAX card.
Matrox MXO2 devices are still the only I/O solutions that connect anywhere, Mac and PC, via Thunderbolt, PCIe, or ExpressCard/34 – with the same versatile unit. Learn how you can benefit from the only I/O products on the market that that let you deliver H.264 files up to five times f
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 Hell froze over with Avid’s launch of Symphony 6, Media Composer 6 and NewsCutter 10. Not only are these the long-awaited 64-bit versions, but one huge feature is Avid’s new open I/O architecture, which permits full implementation of third party hardware. Simultaneously support was announced by Matrox, MOTU, AJA, Blackmagic Design and Bluefish444 for their popular capture cards.
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 Sorenson Media today announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 8, which adds enhanced functionality and ease-of-use to the company’s gold-standard video encoding and transcoding application at a lower price point. In addition, the company has also introduced Sorenson Squeeze 8 Lite, which makes select features of Squeeze 8 accessible to prosumers at a further significantly reduced price.
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 Well I’ve been deliberating, experimenting and talking to other editors over which NLE to adopt following the launch of FCP-X. I’ve played with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 which is really easy to transition to from FCP as it has a similar interface and editing style. I’ve experimented with FCP-X, which is very fast but has so many missing features and forces you to work in ways I don’t always like
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 Got FCP? Got Kona or Decklink or MXO2?
Crodssgrade to Media Composer 5.5 for $995 (while supplies last) and register before Nov 15th to get a FREE upgrade to MC6!!
Videoguys.com took advantage of a special purchase opportunity that allows us to offer Apple Final Cut owners the "crossgrade" to Avid Media Composer 5.5 for just $995 while supplies last and a FREE upgrade to the new Avid Media Composer 6. Here's how you can take advantage of this last chance offer:
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 We’ve got the purple kool-aid, and we’ve got the firehose: New. Avid. Releases.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, I can share with you dear readers a comprehensive list of what is new and groovy inside the latest offering from Avid. Like what you see? By far, the biggest news is the open I/O architecture. From day 1, virtually every release of Media Composer has relied on Avid branded I/O. And while this closed eco-system allowed for a high level of tight interoperability and thus incr
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 Key Features Include Native RED Epic and AVCHD Support, ProRes Encode/Decode, and 4:4:4 DNxHD
Avid announced a new "Media Composer family" today, with a fresh 64-bit code base underlying Media Composer 6, Symphony 6, and NewsCutter 10. Key features in this update include an expansion of Avid's AMA, which now supports native AVCHD, native RED Epic, ProRes encode and decode, and a new DNxHD 4:4:4 codec. Support for Avid's Artist Color hardware interface has been beefed up, and Pro Tools roundt
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 AJA Video Systems announced support for the latest releases of Avid(R) Media Composer(R) 6.0, NewsCutter(R) 10.0 and Symphony(R)6.0 with all of AJA’s newest desktop solutions and mobile I/O devices.
The current family of KONA cards, KONA 3G, KONA 3, KONA LHi and KONA LHe Plus, will all support Avid Media Composer 6.0
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 Matrox® Video Products Group today announced support for Avid® Media Composer® version 6 with the entire range of Matrox MXO2 I/O devices and the new Matrox Mojito™ MAX™ card. Not only do Matrox I/O products provide broadcast-quality input and output, they also lets users deliver H.264 files for the web, mobile devices, and Blu-ray up to five times faster than software alone, without sacrificing quality. Other important features include 10-bit hardware scaling, inexpensive HD monitoring with the
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 Despite the coming availability of a new generation of Sandy Bridge desktop CPUs suitable for advancing Apple's Mac Pro line, the company has reportedly been evaluating whether to continue to invest in furthering its full-sized workstation line beyond this year in the face of limited sales.
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